During last night’s State of the Union address, the president spent roughly the first quarter of the speech talking about manufacturing. Does Obama have the right solutions? Time will tell. (It is an election year, so little will get done anyway.) But the Administration has certainly identified the right problem: the need to turn around manufacturing in the U.S. The speech began with the auto companies: On the day I took office, our...

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